A brand new year full of promise at St. Pat’s High School
What is it about a new year? It’s the same school year, and spring is not yet in the air, but after a restful and well deserved holiday, the staff …
Everest’s conqueror, Sir Edmund Hillary, dies at 88
In what was almost the last item of a newscast on January 11, the world learned that Sir Edmund Hillary had died earlier that day, at the age of 88. …
Memorials and thing of fame
1848 The Morning Chronicle , January, The High School of QuebecThe annual Examination of the Pupils of this Institution took place on Wednesday and Thursday last, in presence of the …
Needed changes at the Chronicle-Telegraph
I decided it was time to bring you all up to date on more changes we are implementing at the QCT starting in 2008. Over the last six months I …
Equal airfare for equal ride in store for disabled Canadians long overdue
Flying with Canadian airlines should be less expensive for persons with severe disabilities, once air carriers figure out how to implement the Canadian Transport Agency’s newly-adopted one-person-one-fare policy. Air Canada, …
What are you doing to celebrate Quebec City’s 400th anniversary?
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph wants to know! Are you watching the calendar of events planned by the Société du 400e de Québec? Are you planning to attend community-sponsored events? Is your …
MUNRO, Guay 1939 – 2007
MUNRO, Guay 1939 – 2007 — Died at General Hospital of Belleville, Ontario, on December 17, 2007, at the age of 68. He was beloved husband of Renate Munro, loving …
Just thinking
how nice it would be if we could actually be able to contact old friends in Quebec City. Now, I look in the obituaries to see if anyone I know …
Fakin’ Eh! has a Canuck sense of humour
“Fakin’ Eh! How to Pretend to Be a Canadian” by Dan de Figueiredo, illustrations by Roger Garcia2007, Blue Bike Books $14.95 Canada 224 pages The house down the road finally …
Céline Dion says good-bye to Vegas to begin her new life
It certainly is a new day for Quebec chanteuse Celine Dion, as she closed on December 15 an almost five-year run in Las Vegas to embark on a world tour …